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With painted faces, bandages, placards and rainbow banners, thousands of LGBT community members and their supporters participated in the annual Delhi Queer Pride Parade in New Delhi - Photogallery

With painted faces, bandages, placards and rainbow banners, thousands of LGBT community members and their supporters participated in the annual Delhi Queer Pride Parade in New Delhi. They walked from Barakhamba Road to Tolstoy Marg to make awareness about their rights. The pride parade was the first one after the Supreme Court decriminalised the homosexuality by scrapping the draconian Section 377 in September 6, 2018. Sumit, who identifies as a girl, expressed her gratitude towards the apex court's decision and said that "for bigger changes you also have to wait longer". "I am very thankful to the judges, I never expected it to happen in my life, but it did. I am very glad. For more changes you have to wait, a big change will take time. Nothing changes in a second. You make some efforts, you take some time," she said. The pride parade is organised on every last Sunday of November since 2008 by the Delhi Queer Pride Committee. "Our pride is a struggle not just to be free and to love at the level of individuals, but to build love as the only force capable of bringing about our collective liberation," the members said in a statement. The committee also demanded repeal of the Karnataka Police Act 36A and Hyderabad Eunuch Act, anti-beggary, anti-Hijra laws, sedition laws, UAPA, AFSPA and removal of the marital rape exception from rape laws. (BCCL)

With painted faces, bandages, placards and rainbow banners, thousands of LGBT community members and their supporters participated in the annual Delhi Queer Pride Parade in New Delhi. They walked from Barakhamba Road to Tolstoy Marg to make awareness about their rights. The pride parade was the first one after the Supreme Court decriminalised the homosexuality by scrapping the draconian Section 377 in September 6, 2018. Sumit, who identifies as a girl, expressed her gratitude towards the apex court's decision and said that "for bigger changes you also have to wait longer". "I am very thankful to the judges, I never expected it to happen in my life, but it did. I am very glad. For more changes you have to wait, a big change will take time. Nothing changes in a second. You make some efforts, you take some time," she said. The pride parade is organised on every last Sunday of November since 2008 by the Delhi Queer Pride Committee. "Our pride is a struggle not just to be free and to love at the level of individuals, but to build love as the only force capable of bringing about our collective liberation," the members said in a statement. The committee also demanded repeal of the Karnataka Police Act 36A and Hyderabad Eunuch Act, anti-beggary, anti-Hijra laws, sedition laws, UAPA, AFSPA and removal of the marital rape exception from rape laws. (BCCL)